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10 Dec 2016 3:32:24pm

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Hi Rachel,You say your point is "the atheist advocates for humanism in the video mentioned, were proselytising for their particular claims about the nature of reality".

You seem to be suggesting that anyone who promotes a point of view is the equivalent of a religious fundamentalist. This is such an unbalanced opinion that, to give you the benefit of the doubt, one supposes you are being provocative rather than sincere. If you really are suggesting that the progress of ideas is a sequence of dogmas then I suggest you look at the evidence.

Your claim is simply wrong. For example, Rumy Hasan is hardly "proselytising for (his) particular claims about the nature of reality" when he says: ".. a humanist says "Let's try to understand the world"".

Also, you need to explain how you jump from the individuals and their diverse opinions to the characterisation of humanism as: "our understanding of reality is right and all the (other) religions are wrong".